- Title
- The Letter X in Artificial Auxiliary Languages
- Creator
- Libert, Allan Reed
- Relation
- EUROASIA. Proceedings of EUROASIA Congress on Scientific Researches and Recent Trends-VIII (San Narciso, Philippines 02-04 August, 2021) p. 18-22
- Relation
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354375259_EUROASIA_Congress_on_Scientific_Researches_and_Recent_Trends-VIII_Full_Text_Book
- Publisher
- IKSAD GLOBAL Publications
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- In English and some other languages, the letter
is relatively rare and might be seen as exotic. In fact, it does not occur at all, or only in foreign words in some languages, for example, Turkish. On the other hand, there are languages such as French and Somali in which might be slightly more common, although still not one of the most frequent letters of the alphabet. One might also notice that can stand for different sounds in different languages, or even in the same language; for example, in English it usually represents [ks], but it can also represent [z] and [gz]. These are facts about natural languages; the present paper will look at such facts in artificial languages, i.e. languages which have been consciously constructed, and, in particular, artificial languages which were designed to be used for international communication, artificial auxiliary languages. The best known such language is Esperanto. The main questions will be whether occurs in a language, and, if so, what sound(s) it represents. Also, although letter frequency statistics do not exist for most artificial auxiliary languages, one might be able to get some idea of the frequency of by examining whether it occurs in common words and/or affixes. Some artificial auxiliary languages, for example Kah and Uropi, lack . Other languages, for example Neo, have in their alphabet and it stands for the sequence of sounds [ks]. In still other languages, such as Ardano and Atlas, is pronounced like in English. In Latino Moderne stands for [ks] and [z]. We thus see diversity in the function of this letter in artificial languages, as well as in natural languages. - Subject
- letter x; artificial auxiliary languages; foreign words; languages
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1467954
- Identifier
- uon:47949
- Identifier
- ISBN:9786257464031
- Language
- eng
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